Title :
Absorption enhancement in hexagonal plasmonic solar cell
Author :
Muhammad, Muhammad H. ; Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O. ; Obayya, Salah S. A.
Author_Institution :
Center for Photonics & Smart Mater., Zewail City of Sci. & Technol., Giza, Egypt
Abstract :
In this paper, a novel design of hexagonal cylindrical plasmonic solar cell (HC-PSC) is investigated and analysed by using 3D finite difference time domain method. The aim of our work is to get maximum absorption of thin film solar cell by scattering the light from metal nanoparticles. Therefore the effects of the structure geometrical parameters on the absorption are investigated. The numerical results show around 35% absorption improvement compared to the conventional thin film solar cell without metal nanoparticles.
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave scattering; finite difference time-domain analysis; light absorption; solar cells; 3D finite difference time domain method; HC-PSC; absorption enhancement; hexagonal cylindrical plasmonic solar cell; hexagonal plasmonic solar cell; light scattering; maximum absorption; metal nanoparticles; structure geometrical parameters; thin film solar cell; Absorption; Finite difference methods; Light trapping; Nanoparticles; Optical films; Photovoltaic; absorption enhancement; finite difference time domain; plasmonic;
Conference_Titel :
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2014 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Palma de Mallorca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3681-6
DOI :
10.1109/NUSOD.2014.6935357
